Counting

From Wind Repertory Project
Noah Meites

Noah Meites


General Info

Year: 2012
Duration: c. 18:50
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Noah Meites
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown


Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II-III (I doubling C Piccolo)
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
C or B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F
Trombone
Bass Trombone
Piano I-II
Electric Guitar I-II
Electric Bass

Soprano Voice I-II
Alto Voice I-II


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Program Notes

Every 10 years, as mandated by law, the United States government conducts the Census, a nationwide survey used to track demographic changes (in terms of population, age, sex, race, income, and ethnicity) among people living in the U.S. The results of the Census are in turn used to determine the geographical apportionment of congressional representation and the distribution of more than $400 billion dollars in federal funds for schools, housing, hospitals, roads, and other projects at the state and municipal level. The Census also provides an illuminating snapshot of the United States’ shifting ethnic diversity; for instance, the recent 2010 survey demonstrated that the Latino population in the U.S. had increased 43 percent since 2000, more than doubling the total in 1990.

The four vocal soloists in Counting sing text from the Los Angeles-based poet Jeremy A. Schmidt’s Censuspeak (2011), a meditation on modes of enumeration, civic responsibility, and economic disparity crafted from the language of the Census Bureau’s promotional campaigns along with statistics and language from past surveys, and excerpts from relevant passages of the U.S. Constitution. Schmidt’s text -- and by extension the music -- makes structural use of a metrical scheme adapted from Walt Whitman’s celebrated poem on the limits of empiricism, When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer.

- Program Note by composer


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